The truth is, I feel myself being fascinated and repelled by her: She's both a mirror of myself and a door to part of this island that I'm not.

It is the first day of November and so, today, someone will die.

Mum liked to say that some things happen for a reason, that sometimes obstacles were there to stop you from doing something stupid.

I whisper like the sea in the horse's ear.

The tourists always seem to want something. On Thisby, it's less about wanting, and more about being." I wonder after I say it if he'll think I sound like have no drive or ambition.

It's a strange thing, to be talked about instead of talked to.

I am so, so alive.

I lost a horse today.''That sounds careless. What happened?''She jumped off a cliff.''A cliff! Is that normal?

Boys", she says, "just aren't very good at being afraid.

He keeps getting older while I'm not paying attention.

I seem at once cursed to say precisely what I'm thinking to him and unable to tell what he thinks about it.

Don't go downhill just because it's easy. The view is only visible from the top.

You said that facts are meaningless, unless meanings are put into them. Well, Christianity, the mystery of the individual, is precisely what must be put into the facts to make them meaningful.

Knowledge cultivates your seeds and does not sow in your seeds.

The body is a sacred garment.

If men were born free, they would, so long as they remained free, form no conception of good and evil.

Not only is your own happiness and welfare related to others, but the more you help them, the happier you will be.

To pretend to be calm is to be calm, in a way.

Jude's rule number five: Never get to close to anyone or anything that you can't walk away at a moment's notice if you have to. When you have to.

If I can raise more money for charities, or get more Canadian kids to play golf, the green jacket will mean even more.

The most beautiful thing in the world is, precisely, the conjunction of learning and inspiration. Oh, the passion for research and the joy of discovery!